Test 13 · ★ · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

wait, did a boy write that Casabianca poem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, boy · What happens: wait, write · To what, where: Casabianca poem

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 write	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 write	aux
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	nsubj
6	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 poem	mark
8	Casabianca	Casabianca	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 poem	compound
9	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 write	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	write	past · do-support	a boy	Casabianca poem					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, Mrs. Hemans wrote it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 Hemans	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hemans	compound
4	Hemans	Heman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Mrs. Hemans	it					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

No, Mrs. Hemans wrote it, a famous English poet of the early 1800s

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Hemans	compound
4	Hemans	Heman	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 poet	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 poet	det
9	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 poet	amod
10	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 poet	amod
11	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 1800s	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 1800s	det
14	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 1800s	amod
15	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	11 poet	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Mrs. Hemans	it				a famous English poet of the early 1800s obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yes, a boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 boy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

No, Mr. Scott wrote it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 wrote	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Scott	nmod:desc
4	Scott	Scott	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrote	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Scott Mr.	it					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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